open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp
Enhance the existing exporter interface
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Description
The current naive exporter interface has a few shortcomings that need to be addressed:
- It must work with span circular buffers where the data isn't stored in a single contiguous segment.
- It must support forking (needs something like a restart function).
- It must/should support streaming exporters.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the current exporter interface in the repository, since the issue does not name its files or tests. Read the linked stream_recorder.cpp restart implementation for the forking requirement, then identify how span circular buffers and streaming are represented. Done means the interface addresses non-contiguous buffers, restart/forking, and streaming exporters.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100